Talk:Papa Don't Preach

Violin intro
Does anybody know the name of this violin intro? Is it an actual piece of music or was it purely invented for this song? I ask because it sounds like a piece of actual classical music.


 * It is not a piece of classical music. The song originally began without the string section but the keyboardist improvised the riff and Madonna liked it and it was added to the song. Olivix 12:31, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

What is a CD video single?
Maybe it's just my ignorance, but what exactly is a CD video single? I had never heard this about Papa Don't Preach, so I removed the following sentence:


 * "This single release is also notable as it was the first ever CD Video Single."

Please replace it if I was wrong to remove it. Andrew Parodi 08:00, 11 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Now it says "The single was one of the first video singles ever to be released where the music video was eligible to play on laser disc players." Presumably this is supposed to be a joke or something. Olivix 12:31, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

The single was definately released as a CDV, not sure if it were the first CDV single however, and it is not the same as a laser disc, so wouldn't be able to play on a laser disc player....even if it were 'eligible'Turdalina (talk) 03:06, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
 * CD Video is a CD containing an analogue video track. These discs can only be played on laserdisc players designed for their use (with a smaller, inner ring circumference the same size as a CD - a bit like playing a 3" CD in the inner ring of a 5" CD tray), so they do indeed work on laserdisc players.Nqr9 (talk) 09:27, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

Pregnant in video?
It's certainly implied, but I don't think that it's clearly stated by anything in the video... AnonMoos (talk) 15:15, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
 * She says: "I've made up my mind, I'm keeping my baby." She wouldn't say that if she didn't know herself to be pregnant. Jim Michael (talk) 16:13, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Kelly Osbourne cover
The article says that Kelly Osbourne’s cover is a hard rock version, but it sounds to me more like pop/rock. What are the rules for deciding what genre a song is on Wikipedia? What the artist or label say, what the critics say? Leafcat (talk) 02:39, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Protagonist is a teenager?
The article states that Madonna's character is a teenager. However, neither the lyrics nor the music video say that. She was 27 when the video was filmed, and she doesn't look like a teenager in it. Jim Michael (talk) 16:16, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Jim Michael (talk) 05:16, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

Remixed on The Immaculate Collection?
Not all of the tracks on The Immaculate Collection were remixes, and as far as I can tell, The Immaculate Collection version is the same as the album version. Not only in terms of length, but nothing sounds different. Are you sure it's a remix? 98.221.141.21 (talk) 04:23, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

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Tempo
The tempo of the song is 122 beats per minute, as per SpotOnTrack.com. It analyzes tracks on Spotify and assigns them a key and tempo. While the key may not always be accurate, the tempo is. CB19 (talk) 00:54, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Papa Don't Preach
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Papa Don't Preach's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "aria": From Secret (Madonna song):  From Vogue (Madonna song):  From GHV2:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 00:51, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

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 * Kelly Osbourne 2013.jpg

If the video is played at 25% speed...
... you can see that her nipples are visible at 1:38 and 2:12.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G333Is7VPOg

I do not have a secondary source to verify this, although I do remember reading about it in a magazine in 1986, and verifying it myself at the time with a VCR. I wish I could remember which magazine it was in. I googled to try to find a reliable source, but nothing reliable came up.

SquirrelHill1971 (talk) 07:07, 13 May 2023 (UTC)